[sam_paine]

Not so with the newspaper classifieds, which offer the ambience of a gentleman's club by comparison, with newspapers folded on those bamboo newspaper racks and a butler in a waistcoat bringing around samples of single-malt scotch to give a try.

Boy, this guy's indeed out of touch.

"Gentlemen's Club" now means cocktail waitress in tights, longnecks and rotgut bourbon shots in sticky glasses and the smell of stripper patchouli. (So Laz tells me.)

[Lazamataz]

Don’t forget the green-skinned alien chick.

[abb]

And remember how it was when only the “right people” had control of the airwaves and printing presses...

[Dr. Sivana]

I think the author was thinking along the lines of something more like this: